Accounting typewriter



July 14, 1936. M. E..HAUSHE ER 2,047,505

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M. E. HAUSHEER ACCOUNT ING TYPEWRI TER Filed April 10, 1931 13 Sheets-Sheet l2 M. E. HA'USHEER 2,047,505

ACCOUNT ING TYPEWRITER Filed April 10, 1931 13 Sheets-Sheet l3 Patented July 14, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application April 10, 1931, Serial No. 529,220

France April 14, 1930 I have filed an application in France on the 13th April 1930, and in Germany on the 4th July 1 30.

This invention relates to a typewriting machine.

According to the present invention I provide a machine for typing with previous composition, more particularly of the calculating description, wherein the members which bring about the selection of the letters form a single fixed set mechanically connected with the keys of the keyboard.

The fundamental constructional feature of the machine according to this invention satisfies these conditions by allowing: 1

1. Writing on a plane surface easily accessible by the rapid displacement of the frame oi the machine, andallowing the superposition of several documents of various sizes to be instantaneously interchangeable.

2. Possibility of writing without limitation along the whole length of the line, both letters and figures (added or not) and without that the space required for thecharacters extending beyond the normal sizes of ordinary typewriters.

3. The verification and correction successively and easily of the line of text composed before printing, and to obtain the successive and immediate visibility of the work of composition with respect to the document on which it is to be written.

4. The keeping visibly composed oi any text or portion of text, thus avoiding fresh composition, ,when the following lines have the some text at the same place in the line.

5. The possibility of utilization along the whole length of the line, of interchangeable totalizers the operation of which is synchronized with the printing members, and whose position is visible and can be corrected before printing. f

6. The obtaining of a rapid composition oi the line of text by means of a universal keyboard comprising easy moving keys having a straight course and not exercising any mechanical efiort even when totalizers are employed. a l

7. The repetition in the direction of the writ ing, of a sign, by pressing the corresponding key of the keyboard.

8. The execution of the composition with the minimum of noise.

9. The obtaining of a comfortable working posh 'tion for the operator, the keyboard remaining in place during the composition, at a normal distance from the operator, and the sides oi the machine not being obstructed by the run oi a carriage. 1

, of the machine (limited in Fig. 1 by lines B+B) s1 cum; (CL 101-96) 10. The concentration 0! all checking means on the reading line.

11. The maximum of automatic controls, not requiring a special stall. I

A constructional form of the invention is illus- 5 trated on the accompanying drawings, whereon:-- I

Fig. l is a front elevation of the machine;

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the right hand side 0! the machine;

Fig. 2a is an elevation of the right hand side of the front extremity of the machine, and constitutes a prolongation of Figure 2;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the left hand side of the machine; 15

Fig. 4 is a plan view;

Fig. 4a is a view on a larger scale of the central part of Fig. 4.

The following figures are detail views to a larger scale.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the right hand'side of the machine (limited I on Fig. 1 by the lines rib-A) Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the left hand side Fig. 7 is a side view of a character carrying disc and the connected members; f

Fig. 8 is a side view of the keys or the machine (limited on Fig. 2 by the lines C-C) Fig. 9 is a side view of the selecting mechanism;

Figs. 10 and 11 are side views and serial sections oi the selecting clutch; I

Fig. 12 is an elevation of the upper part of the machine (limited in Fig. 2 by the lines D-D).

Fig. 13 is an elevation of the left hand side (limited in Fig. 3 by the lines E E) Figs. 1a and 15 are side and front views of part of the correction mechanism;

Figs. iii and 17 are side and front views of the automatic declutching mechanism oi the cord drum.

The machine comprises a fixed casing i (Fig. l) which is mounted on a table of tubes adapted to support the whole of the machine. The casing is provided with longitudinal rails 2, supporting the rollers 3 of a movable chassis carrying the key, the impression characters, and intermediate control members. At the interior of the casing i a 50 frame ii (Fig. 5) is arranged and is movable in a vertical plane, the length of the frame being approximately twice the maximum length of the document which can be used. in the machine. This frame serves as a guide to the paper support 6 forming a grating, and can be covered with a supple fabric. The paper support is displaced in a longitudinal plane and for this purpose carries rollers l rolling in grooves provided in the interior walls of the frame 5. At the front and at the rear, the paper support is provided with two chains 8 (Figs. 1 and 2) fixed at its extremities and passing over drums 9.

On all the length of the left longron of the frame 5 (Fig. 6) is mounted a roller pincer device 3H), the rollers i I of which are pressed against the upper surface of the paper support 6 by means or a series of springs l2 fixed on the upper part of the longron 13 of the fixed frame i. A series of rollers 14 on the pincer device It) roll on a bar l6 housed in a groove in the frame 5. The bar is provided with a series of ramps 16, some of which are shown in Fig. 2a and which, when the bar is moved back with respect to the frame 5, raises the pincer device and disengages the paper.

The withdrawal of the bar I5 is effected automatically when the movable chassis i is withdrawn to the bottom to uncover the paper support completely, owing to a stop I! carried by the front extremity of the bar l5 (Fig. 2a) and which the chassis displaces at the end of its travel.

A spring pincer device, the control button of which is shown at 18 (Fig. 1) is arranged in the drums 9 and serves to hold the carbons, the rear and front extremities of which engage in the device whilst passing through the slots IS in the drums.

The displacement withdrawal and advance oi! the key chassis 4, is effected between two extreme positions. The front position is a fixed position that the chassis occupies during the impression, and the chassis is withdrawn towards its rear position when it is desired to disengage the paper support completely to change the documents to be printed. This movement of the chassis can be controlled either by hand or by means of a pedal. Elastic shock absorbers (not shown) are provided at both extremities of the travel of the chassis and serve simultaneously to deaden the shock of the chassis as it terminates its journey and to give it a certain speed at the start of its movements.

The mechanism for advancing the paper support of the line spacing will be described hereunder.

The impression carriage comprises a series of discs 20 (Fig. 1) whose members are shown in greater detail on Fig. 7. These discs carry on one part of their periphery, a complete set of impression characters (letters or figures) 2| (see Fig. 7), and on another part of the periphery a series of reading or control characters 22. On Fig. 7 the impression characters are distributed between the point A and the point B (see Fig. 7) of the periphery, and the control characters between the points B and C. The impression and control characters are separated by notches 23 and thus form sets of teeth one of which extends on the periphery of the disc to a point D near the point A. The use of this set of teeth will be explained later.

The discs are mounted loosely on a hollow central cylinder 24 provided with a longitudinal slot 25. The transverse position of the discs on their core is well determined by their thickness and the separating rings 26 mounted at the extremities of the core 24 (the ring 26 mounted on the right extremity of the core is shown in Fig. 5). Each disc corresponds to a given spacing of the line to be printed, and the total number of discs is equal to the number of signs which a line printed with the aid of this machine can comprise. The number of discs determines the length of the machine and its capacity for printing.

The core 24 is traversed from one end to the other by a hollow fixed guiding shaft 27 also provided with a longitudinal slot 28. A cursor 29 is slidable on the shaft 21 and is driven in its longitudinal movement on the shaft by means of a driving member 30 with respect to which it can turn on the shaft 27 and which itself is fixed to a traction cord 3| by means of a key 32. The cursor 29 carries, at its upper part, a movable block or pin 33 capable of sliding vertically in a guide 36 provided in the upper part of the cursor and held, in its striking position, in which its extremity leaves the core through the slot 25 by means of a coil spring 35. The pin has a width (that is, a dimension perpendicular to the plane of Fig. 7) equal to or a little smaller than the thickness of a disc, so that when it is engaged in a notch 36 provided in the nave of each of the discs, it can drive this disc leaving the neighbouring discs free.

The object of the interior cursor 29 and its pin its to bring the discs one after the other in a. position so that the desired impression characters come in front of the impression line (at the bottom of Fig. 7). This movement is obtained by a mechanism which is described hereinafter.

The front half of the disc is hollowed out, and a mechanism for restoring the discs to their initial or rest positions is lodged there. This mechanism comprises a shaft 37 parallel to the nave of the discs. In this shaft are fitted the interior ends of as many spiral springs 38 as there are discs. The exterior and of each of these springs is fitted in a toothed barrel 39 and comes into engagement with an interior set of teeth 30 cut at the periphery of the nave ti of the disc.

The rotation of the discs bringing the desired characters on the impression line, or the selective rotation, is controlled by a series of keys 42 (Fig. 8) each of which'corresponds to one of the characters carried by the disc. These keys, which together constitute an ordinary key board arranged at the anterior part of the movable chassis 8, control the levers 43 mounted on the shafts 44. The shafts 44 carry at their ends, levers 35, the latter controlling connecting rods 46. The vertical travel of the rods 41 of the keys is limited, the extremities of these rods abutting on the bottom of the keyboard. The rods 46 each set upon one of the cams 48 (Fig. 9) pivoting on shafts 49. These cams are arranged in an arc of a circle corresponding to the arc A-B of the periphery of the discs, and each actuating one of the angle blocks sliding radially in a ring 5| concentric with the core 24, said blocks being withdrawn towards the interior of the ring by spiral springs 52. The angle blocks 50 are arranged on two sides of the machine, so that one half of the keys'42 control connecting rods 46 passing to the right of the machine and going to the right hand ring ll, whilst the other half is connected to the left hand ring. The succewive characters carried by each disc thus correspond alternatively to the blocks SI of the left and right hand rings. This arrangement permits the reduction by halfof the diameter of the rings for given dimensions of the blocks.

The blocks ill serve to disengage the key 32 of the disc in the notch 30 with which it is engaged when the disc has turned through the composition angle, that is, the angle which brings the desired character on the impression line. To this end, the cursor 29 (Fig. 7) is provided with a cam 53 coming into engagement with a claw 54 of the key 33 and is displaced at the same time as the cursor. The shaft 55 on which this cam is mounted, is a channelled shaft extending through the core 24 and on which the cam 5! slides at the same time as the cursor 29 slides on its shaft 21.

The machine comprises several members controlled in a similar manner, and it may be observed that in general, the control by a channelled shaft is more or less equivalent to a control device which should permit, for example, a smooth shaft and a cam parallel to this shaft and acting on a movable member (such as the cam 53) mounted on this shaft independently of the longitudinal position 0! the movablememher on the shaft, orthe cam sliding on the channelled shaft can be replaced by a longitudinal cam acting on the claw 54 of the key, inde-v pendently of the longitudinal position '0! the latter. The control by channeled shaft has the advantage that at the moment of control, the

v channeled shaft sustains no bending effort. This is important for obtaining a control acting with precision. The shaft 55 carries at each of its ends a leve 56 (Fig. 9). The extremities oi the shaft 55 pivot in the end pieces, which will be designated hereafter by bearings' 51 mounted at the two ends of the core 25 by means of screws 58. The upper part 59 of the bearings 6! serves as a guide for a push member 68 coming into engagement with the lever 56, which is normally withdrawn towards its upper position by the action of the spring 35 of the key. At the upper extremity of the part 58 pivots a shaft ti, on which is fixed a shutter 62 which, at the time oithe rotary movement of the core 26, Icllows the periphery of the ring 58, and a cam. 83 engaging with the push member 68. When, during the rotation of the core, the shutter comes into engagement with that one of the blocks 58, which has been raised by the key of the pressed character, it rocks-the shutter d2, and the cam 63, which is integral with it and thrusts the push member towards the interior of the core. lhe push .member' acts on the lever 56 whose movement is transmitted to the cam lit (Fig. '7) by the shaft 55. The cam presses on the claw of the key and disengages the latter irom the notch of the disc. The driving of a disc thus ceases, when it has turned through the composition an= gle determined by the raised block, and the char actor which is brought facing the impression line corresponds to the actuated character key.

The core 26 driven in the following mannerz The rods ll (Fig. 8) of the keys d2 are provided with spurs G l acting on levers t5 mounted on the shnlts The shafts (it carry levers h'l, which act on rods fill icy means of screws engaging in oblong holes til provided in the rods Th s arrangement allows the actuation of the shaft (56 corresponding to the series of lreys to which he longs the pressed hey, without the movement of the shaft heing transmitted to the other keys oi the same series, and thus it allows each of the shafts $36 to not on. a rod Elli without the move ment oi the said rod acting on the other The control rod iiii by the aid of a bent lever ll (Fig. 2) and a draw member ll of adjuctahle length drives a lever 13 pivoting at I4 and causing the operation 0! a clutch I5. The latter is of the kind which automatically releases the driving after having turned through one turn, and it is represented in detail in Figs. 10 and 11. The clutch comprises a ring 16 fixed at the end of a shalt 21 integral with a bearing 51 and a core 24 and concentric with the latter. In the ring 16 is a transverse guide '18 closed by a plug 18 and in which slides a pawl 80. The extremity 8| 0! this pawl tends to project on thesuriace of a crown adjacent to a driving ring 82 and to engage in one of the notches 83 formed in the surface facing the driving ring. The pawl is pushed in this direction by a spring 84 but is maintained in withdrawn position by the chamiered extremity of the lever 13, the extremity being normally held in engagement with a notchv 8.5 in the pawl 80 by means of a spring 88. When one of the keys 42 is pressed, the lever 13 is led into the position shown dotted in Fig. 10, and its extremity is disengaged from the notch 85. The extremity 8| of the pawl 80 leaves the ring," and engages in the first notch 83 which it meets, the driving ring 82 being in continuous rotation. The ring 16 is thus driven in this rotation and the shaft 2? completes a turn, after which the notch 85 again meets the end oi the lever 13 (returned to its initial position) thus disengaging the extremity ill of the pawl 80 irom the notch 83 and stops the rotation of the shaft 21. The driving ring 82 is driven by a pinion 81 (Fig. 2) connected by a silent chain 88 to the pinion 88 of the motor so.

As has been described above, the core 26, although it makes an entire turn each time one of the keys 42 is pressed, only drives the disc 2% through an angle determined by the actuated hey, an angle from which the key 83 is eifaced.

by the action of the shutter 62 meeting the block so actuated by the key and then remains efiaced until it faces the notch 36 of the following disc.

At the same time as an impression character is made to face the impression line, the character of the corresponding control is led in front of a longitudinal inspection window Si, provided in the casing 92, of the mechanism carried by the chassis (Fig. 12),

The position of the cursor 29, which is deter= mined by the traction of the cord 38, is rectl fled by means of a toothed rack 93, (Fig. 7) provided at the interior of the core and provided with a notch facing each disc. The key 38 is provided on the other side with a tooth 9d engaging in the notches of the rack and being disengaged to allow the displacement oi the cursor and the passage oi the hey of a disc to the iollowing disc at the same time as the hey is efiaced under the action of the cam E3.

The machine comprises locking members for the discs, unlocking members and a system of contraloclring called repetition hose iunc= tioning will be described in detail hereafter. These members come into engagement with the exterior set oi teeth 23 of the discs and are divided into three groups. Certain members .which will be called individual members are mounted in front of each disc, their number being consequently equal to that of the discs. @ther members which will be called general members are connected to the corresponding control lseys and act on the individual members either to control them all at onceor'bii. groups, by means of longitudinal cams parallel to the axes of the discs or similar devices, or by the aid of a third kind of member which will be called "common members" and which slide along the discs and come into engagement with the individual member corresponding to the disc before which it finds itself, and which are controlled by the general members by means of longitudinal cams, channeled shafts or similar devices.

The common control members are mounted on a carriage 95 (Figs. 4 and 12) mounted on two pairs of rollers 90 and 81 rolling on rails 98 and 98 integral with the chassis i.

The carriage 95 is blockedin front of the required discs by means of a lever with two arms I00-IOI (Fig. 12) displaceable with the carriage and sliding on a transverse channelled shaft I02. The arms I00 and I01 engage alternately between the teeth of a fixed rack (integral with the chassis) I03 of which each tooth is found in front of a disc. The arms I00 and IOI are unlocked transversely of half the thickness of a disc (half of the pitch of the rack) and can be brought by a rotation of the shaft I02 either into two extreme positions in which the arm I00 or the arm IOI is engaged in the rack or into a mean position leaving the two arms out of engagement.

The carriage 95 is also connected to the traction cord 3|. As is shown in Fig. 1 one end of the traction cord 3| is rolled on a spring-pressed drum I04. On leaving this drum, the cord passes on over a pulley I05 and is engaged in the fixed hollow shaft 21. In the interior of this shaft it passes through the driving member 30, to which it is pinned, then leaves through the other end of the shaft 27, passes through the pulleys I06- --I0'l then traverses the right and left hand discs, passes over the pulleys I08 and I09, is fixed under the carriage 95, passes over the pulley I I0, and is coiled on a driving drum I l I. The operation of this drum will be described hereinafter. The interior cursor 29 is consequently displaced at the same time as the carriage 95 and in the same direction and they are fixed on the cord 3i so as to come in front of the same dmc, their position being rectified as has been said, owing to the racks 93 and I03.

At rest, the cursor and the carriage are situated at the left of the machine, in front of the first disc. When the key of the character is pressed at the beginning of the line, the core 24 makes a revolution and drives, during a part of its course, the first disc to carry it into the composing position, after which the engagement is interrupted by the retraction of the key 33. During the second part of its travel the part, which corresponds to the part of the periphery of the discs which do not bear impression characters, a cam II2 (Fig. 6) mounted on the left hand extremity of the core or more exactly on the shaft 21 on the left, lifts a, lever I I3 carrying a roller I I4 (Fig. 6) fixed to a rock arm on the fluted shaft I02 (Fig. 1) and provokes in this way an alternating movement of the lever I00-IOI. Under the action of'the drum spring I04, the cord 3| pulls on the slider and carriage, which is displaced at first half the thickness of a disc when the arm I00 leaves the rack I03 and the arm IOI engages with it, then, during the return movement of the shaft I02, once again through half the thickness of a disc when the arms I00IOI return to theposition they started from.

The machine is provided with a spacing mechanism allowing the carriage and slider to be passed from one disc to the following disc without selecting the characters. This mechanism is constituted (see Fig. 3) by a spacing bar H5 which works the escape arrangement described above through a bent lever IIB-I I1 oscillating on the shaft H8. The lever H6 acts on a draw member I I9 which acts on a rock lever not shown, supported on the shaft I02. The shaft I02 receives, under the action of the bar I I5, an oscillatory movement, and the alternating movement of the arms IOIl--IOI which results, causes displacement of the carriage and of the slider from one disc to the following disc. The key 33 which has not been retracted by the travel of the angle block and the shutter 62 (none of the keys of the characters having been depressed) is disenwhich causes retraction of the key 33 in the manner described.

When it is desired that the carriage and the slider shall be displaceable freely along the length of the discs, the arms I00 and IOI are led to their intermediate position in which they are not in engagement with the rack I03 by means of a lever I2I (see Fig. 12) pivoting on a shaft I22 mounted on the carriage 95 and provided with a handle I23 which is seized at the same time as a fixed handle I24. The approach together of the handles I23 and I24 lowers the lever I25, which acts on a lever i25 sliding on the shaft I02 and thus leads the double lever I00-IOI Into the intermediate position.

The discs 20, which as has been described, are engaged by the core 20 of the composing angle, and which are then immediately disconnected from the core by the obliteration of a key 33, are at the same moment held in their composing position by means of a locking system. This system comprises (see Fig. 12) as many of angle blocks I26 as there are discs. The angle blocks are rotatably mounted on a common shaft I27 and are each provided with a tooth I28 engaging in the notches 23 of the discs. Normally the blocks I26 are held in their lifted position (allowing free rotation of the discs) due to the stopping latches I29 provided in equal number to the number of the discs, mounted freely on' a common shaft I30, coming into engagement with the beaks of the blocks I26 and tending to remain in engagement with the beaks by virtue of the flat spring I3I with which such stopping latch is provided. When the shutter 52 is engaged by the block 50 which corresponds to the key of the actuated character, the pusher 60, as has been seen,

is lowered and causes the retraction of the key 33 and the suppression of the operation of the disc 20. The pusher 60 (Fig. 9) is provided with a tooth I32 which co-operates with a ring I33. The ring I33 is mounted freely on the core 24 and is provided with a cam I34 and, on the part of the periphery which corresponds to the arc of the ring 5|, which is provided with blocks 50, with teeth I35 each of which is situated opposite, one of the blocks 50.

In the normal position (lifted) of the pusher 60, the tooth I32 is situated above the set of teeth I35 and the bearing 51 turns without engaging the ring I33. At the moment when the shutter 82 is actuated by one of the angle blocks 00, the pusher is lowered and the tooth I32 comes into engagement with the first tooth I35 that it encounters. The ring I33 is then carried round and the cam I34 lifts a connecting rod I36 provided with a roller I31 (see Fig. 2), which rod is connected to a lever I38 supported on the fluted shaft I39 (Fig. 12). The fluted shaft I39 extends above the disc 20 and crosses the carriage 95. A lever I40, secured in the carriage, slides on the shaft I39 and when the shaft I39 receives a rotational movement (such as is produced when the cam I34 raises the roller I31) the lever I40 rocks the stopping latch I29 against the action of the 'tion of the core 24.

spring I3I and thus liberates the block I26 which falls and engages in the notch 23 of that disc 20 with which the members of the slider 29 and the carriage 95 are engaged. This disc, which has Just been moved into its composition position by the core 24 is then locked. The discs may be unlocked or released in three ways, that is to say; either before the impression (preimpression release) or all together after the impression (automatic release which, as will be explained. later, takes place automatically) and lastly they. may be released individually, to correct an error in the position of the respective disc before the impression.

The machine includes a releasing key I (see Fig. 4) which, when it is depressed, acts through a bent lever not shown, on a connecting rod I42 (see Fig. 3). The connecting rod I42 causes a bent lever I43 to pivot, the'other arm of the lever being connected to a vertical rod I44. Theupper extremity of therod I44 (Fig. 13) is connected to a lever I45 supported on theshaft I 43, which carries a cam I41 extending'longitudinally above the discs. The cam I41, when rocked, comes into engagement,(I-ig. 1-2) with the tails I43 of the blocks I26 and makes them pivot simultaneously. The discs are thus simultaneously freed and return under the action of the spring barrels 39 to their initial positions, which are determined by the stops l49 coming into engagement with the internal teeth I50 provided on the discs, (see Fig. 7). The-stops I49 serve at the same time to deaden theshock which occurs when the disc is stopped. For this purpose they are freely mounted on a common shaft I5I and are forced against the interior surface of the discs by the springs I52. Each interior surface has immediately in front of the tooth I50 a .ramp which forces the stop I49 to move back, against the spring I52, thus producing the deadening effect. The carriage and slider may be pulled back by hand to their position of departure by pulling on the handles I123, I24.

The individual correction is controlled by a system which, at the same time as it liberates the disc to be corrected, in order that the latter may return to its initial position, gives a backward movement to the carriage and slider. This backward movement is necessary, because as referred to above, the carriage and slider are automatically moved into engagement'with the next successive disc, during the second half of the rota- By actuating the key 853 (Fig. 3) which controls the movement for individual correction, the return of the carriage and slder to the disc which has just been brought into the composing position is first caused and this disc is then freed.

The correction key I53 acts on a cranked lever 556, which actuates the rod I55 whose other end is connected to a rocking return lever I56 mounted on a shaft I51 but hidden on Fig. 13 by a similar rocking lever, whose function will be explained later. The rocking lever I55 transmits the movement of the key I54 to a connecting rod-- I53, which acts on a mechanism represented in detail in Figs. 14 and 15.

The said mechanism comprises a shaft I69 car- 5 rying a series of cams and levers. During the first part of the movement of the rod I58, a lever I60, keyed on the shaft I59, is lowered, and allows a pawl IN, on the free end opposite to thatat which -it acts, to. rise and to come into engage- 10 ment witha ratchet I62 fixed on the driving drum III of the cord 3|. A' cam I63, supported on the shaft I59, then acts on a lever I64 fixed on a shaft I65 which actuates, through a link I56, a lever I61 pivoting on a shaft I68 and integral l5 with a cam I69. The cam I69 then lifts an arm I10 pivoting on the shaft "I of the drum III. In the arm slides a pawl I12 urged by a spring I13 to engage with the teeth I62. The pawl I12 is provided with a lateral spur I14 which slides on a 20 fixed inclined plane I15 shown dotted in Fig. 15.

In the normal position of the shaft I59, the pawl I 6| is maintained out of engagement with the teeth I 62 by the lever I; the arm I10 is maintained in its lower position (that shown in 25 the drawingsb-by a spring not shown, and the inclined plane I15 holds the pawl I12 out of contact with the teeth I52. The pawls I6I and I12 cannot therefore hinder the movement of the drum III at the time of the normal advancement 30- of the carriage and arm.

when thearm I10 is lifted by the cam I6I, the spur I14 slides on the inclined plane I15, and the pawl I12 engages the teeth I62 and, from this moment drives the drum III. This action causes 35 the winding on the drum of the cordjl and the withdrawal of the carriage and the slider 29.

At the same time, a cam I16, keyed on the shaft I59, lowers a lever I11 pivoting on the shaft I and-connected by a rod I 13 to a lever I19 supported onthe splined shaft I02 actuating the branched lever I00-IOI. The rotation of the shaft I02 moves the arms I00--IOI intotheir middle position, and disengages them from the rack I 03. At the sametime, as explained above, the key is released by the play of the bar mentioned and of the pusher 60.

During the operation due to the movement of the rod I56, a cam I80.keyed on the shaft I59, lowers a lever IBI pivoting on the shaft I65, and 50 this lever is connected by a rod I02 to a lever I 53 fixed on the splined shaft I34. The splined shaft extends across the discs 20 and controls a cam 585 (Fig. 12) displaced along the shaft as the carriage 95 moves. The cam I65 acts on a third 55 am of the locking block I26 of the respective disc 20, which has just been brought into the composing position and on to which the carriage 35 has returned during the first part of the movement of the correction key W3. The block 825 israised 60 and the disc 2E3 being freed, comes back to its initial position. When the correction key I153 is released, the splined shafts I02 and i8 3 retake their normal position and the individual members of the disc having just been corrected are as found exactly in the position which they occupied before the rotation of the disc which had to be corrected, that is to say, that it is new suficient to operate the key of the desired character in order that this character may be selected on the 70 disc that has just been released.

If the disc, on to which the carriage and the slider return by the operation of the correction key, is not in the composing position (if, for ex-= ample, the carriage has left it under the action of the spacing key) a simple backward movement of the carriage and slider without correction evidently takes place.

The backward movements of the carriage and the correction of the disc could also take place in the reverse order, If, for example, the unlocking cam I85 is mounted on the carriage, not

in alignment with its other members acting on the individual members of the discs, but was unlocked behind the thickness of a disc, the proportions of various levers etc., of the movements of the individual correction could be regulated so as to actuate first the shaft I88 and then the drum II I. The cam I being unlocked to the rear and the carriage being brought to the end of the composition movement in front of the following disc, the cam I85 engages with the blocking block I26 of the disc which has just been composed and which the carriage has just left. The rotation of the shaft I84 can take place, for example, at the same time as the first part of the movement of the shaft I68 that is to say, that which brings the pawl I12 into engagement with the ratchet E62 without the latter being driven again.

The machine comprises in addition a contralocking or repetition system, the aim of which is -to allow the repetition of the signs, of words or desired parts of a line desired on an undetermined line number, without the necessity of troubling the composition each time. This system is particularly advantageous in writings comprising certain columns whose contents are the same for a certain number of'lines; for example, the date column or counting column of account writings. These repetitions can naturally be eliminated at the desired moment.

This system comprises a series of individual blocking blocks I88 (Fig. 12) freely mounted on a common shaft I81 and coming into engagement with the set of teeth 23 of the discs under the action of springs I88. The blocks I88 are normally held in their raised positions by individual stop latches I89, which springs I99 tend to hold in their lowered positions (in which they are in engagement with the blocks I81). stopping latches I89 pivoted on the shaft I9I are rocked against the action of the springs, the blocks I86 are freed and come into engagement with the teeth 23 (position shown in drawings). The lifting of a blocking block I26 does not in=- volve the liberation of the locked disc by the repetition block I86, and the disc remains in its composed position indefinitely until the cancellation of the repetition, which is effected by a mechanism which will be described hereinafter.

The repetition is set (that is to say, the block I" of the disc oi. which repetition is desired is freed) by means of a repetition key I92 (see Fig, 3). This key acts through the intermediary 6f a bent lever I93, a rod I94, a bell crank I98 mounted on the shaft I51 and a link I96 operating a rod I91 (Fig. 13) provided with a hook I91. The said rod I91, which is articulated to a lever I89 keyed on a splined shaft 200, is then lowered and its book I91 comes into engagement with a spur 2III carried by a lever 202 keyed on the splined shaft I39. When the shaft I39 (Fig. 12) is actuated by the rod I36 (a movement which is produced when the disc arrives in its composition position, and which causes the locking of the disc in this position by means of the block i228) its movement is transmitted by the hook 581' and the lever 98 to the splined shaft 208, which ex- When the tends across all the discs and on which the carriage traverses. The carriage carries a cam 203 which slides with it during movement and which slides on the splined shaft 200. When the shaft 20!) turns, the cam 203 pivots the stopping latch I89, which disengages the blocking block I86 this causing the locking of the disc by the block and effects the setting of the disc for repetition.

In order to cancel the repetitions, there can be provided individual members controlled by a common member displaceable with the carriage in the same manner as is carried out, for example, by the individual raising of the blocking blocks I28 in view of the individual correction. In the machine shown on the drawings, this kind of control has not been provided. There has been shown on the other hand a repetition cancellation system which is controlled by several keys 208 (see Figs. 3 and 4) each of which acts on a group of discs.

The keys 284 transmit their movements by the aid of cranked levers 285, connecting-rods 208, cranked levers 201, and connecting-rods 208, to levers 269 driving graduated cams 220 (Fig. 12) which rock levers 2 on which are mounted interchangeable plates 2I2 (Fig. 12) arranged to rock the blocking blocks I86 rearwardly. The rockedblocks I88 are engaged by their respective stop latches I89 and stay in their raised position, in which they do not act on the discs.

The key 286 connected to the lever 2 can be caused to actuate a desired number of blocking blocks I86 by mounting on levers 2i I corresponding to desired block I88, plates 2I2 of convenient length. This arrangement allows, for example of making each cancellation repetition key correspond to a column of the document, however wide this column may be.

The machine is provided with a system of tabulation stops allowing the carriage and the slider to be driven for cooperation with the disc corresponding to a desired place on the printed line. This system of tabulation moreover permits the carriage to be positioned in certain columns (columnsof figures) to the desired decimal. A certain number of tabulation keys 2I8 (Fig. 2) act on graduated levers 2M mounted movably on a common movable shaft 215 and connected by link 2|6 to a shaft 2I1. The shaft 2 I1 acts by the aid of two cranked levers 2i8 pivoting at the extremities of a fixed shaft 2I9 on. two draw-bars 220. The draw bars 229 drive, by means of cranked levers not shown, vertical connecting rods 22I (Fig. 2) which act on levers 222, keyed at the ends of a shaft 223 (Fig. 12) The vertical travel of the keys ills being limited in the same way as those of the keys 2, and being the same for all the keys 2 I3, the movement communicated to the levers 222 is in accordance with the arm ratios of the levers 2M.

Levers 228 keyed on the shaft 223 act on a tabulation carriage 225, which extends across the whole width of the machine (see Fig. 4) and can receive a longitudinal movement. The carriage is mounted to this end on rollers 286 (Fig. 12) rolling in guides 22? integral with the carriage f.. The tabulation carriage, which is withdrawn towards its rear position, by a spring (not shown) advances under the action of levers 224 to a distance which corresponds to the tabulation key at variable distances from one another and in desired number, provided that the number does not exceed that of the tabulation keys.

When the carriage 225 advances under the action of a tabulating key, the abutment 229 corresponding to this key acts as a stopping abutment on the composition carriage 15, which is provided, to this end with an ear 239.

The common shaft 2i! of the graduated levers 2 I4 turns through the same angle whichever tabulation key H3 is pressed, it the vertical travel of all these keys is the same and the-partsof the levers 2|4 actuated bythe keys are equal. The

shaft 215 carries, at its two ends, levers (not. shown) driven by the aid of connecting rods,.

cranked levers or other analogous elements (not shown) on the splined shaft 192, and moving the double lever 190-101 to its central position. The

. carriage 95', which is nowfree, advances when An abutment of a given length, or a row of abutments should necessarilycorrespond to a tabulation key, butthe series of abutments corresponding to the series of tabulation keys can be repeated many times on the rack 229. It is necessary then, in order to bring the composition carriage to an abutment of the second series, for example, to exceed at first the first series; that is to say, only to press the key corresponding to the desired row of abutments, when the carriage has already been brought to the second series of abutments in which the abutment in front stops the carriage.

In Fig. 4, is shown two series of abutments, of which one corresponds to the ordinary tabulation; that is to say, to the tabulation of columns. and of which the other corresponds to the decimal tabulation in the limits of the penultimate col- .make use of the abutments of the decimal tabulation, it is necessary to let the composition carriage pass beyond the ,last abutment of the first series (by pressing on the corresponding tabulation key) and thereafter only pressing the tabulation key corresponding to the row of abutments desired. The term row of abutments" refers to the abutments of the same length of a different series, these abutments corresponding to a like tabulation key.

The machine is provided with a system of indication and of control which, in addition to the ability that it gives of seeing a reproduction of the line before being printed as soon as it is composed (owing to the control characters 22 and to the observation window 9|) allows at the same time the composition to be compared with a model ,text, or of seeing a reproduction of the headings of the columns of the document (which is hidden by the carriage 4). To this end, the machine is provided with an arrangement of cylinders 235 and of return cylinders 232 (see Fig. 12) supporting a strip of paper 233 on which is printed the matter to be reproduced (such as for example addresses of clients) headings of columns and inspection window 9| and indicates on the line the character which ought to appear at the corresponding place of the line to be printed, which corresponds to the disc with which the elements of the carriage and of the interior slider are engaged, or the heading of the column to which the word in composition refers. a

The machine is provided with a series of totalizers 236 adapted to be mounted in front of discs as desired (Fig. 12). The totalizers are mounted -of fixedly journalled pinions 231, 238 and 239, of

a pinion 240, forming part of each totalizer, and p I of a set of return pinions mounted on the car- 15 riage 95 and inserted between the pinion 239 of the disc in the course of composition and the pinion 249 of its totalizcr. The set of return pinions comprises a pinion 24! engaging with the pinion 240 and driven by the pinion 239 by the aid, either of a pinion 242, or of pinions 243, 244

and 245. The return pinions are mounted in a. rocking inner nave moving with the carriage and running on a splined shaft 241. By oscillating the shaft 241, there is transmitted to the pinion 2'5- 240 of the totalizer the movement of the 'pinion 239, either in one direction or in the other which permits of addition or subtraction being carried 1 The totalizers are mounted on a slide 251 and can be fixed thereon in front of the desired discs and in desired number.

A line having been composed, the impression is made by pressing on a key 258 (Fig. 8). The. impression comprises a series of known movements, the lifting of the paper support 6, the impression, the lowering of the paper supports, its advance (space between the lines) the stopping of the composition (except repetitions) and the return of the sliders, to the starting position.

The key 258 operates, by the aid of cranked levers 259, a horizontal rod 260 which engages clutch 26l acting on the clutch. The shaft 262 of the part driven by the clutch 26I (mounted on the carriage 4) is then rotated by the motor 90 through a transmission comprising bevel pinions 263 and 264, the shaft 265 and helicoidal pinions 266 and 251. The movement of the shaft 282 is transmitted, by the pinions 268 and 269, to a shaft are mounted on the structure I and driving a cam 2'. The cam 21! actuates a connecting rod 212 provided with a guide slot sliding on the shaft 218 and carrying a roller 213 in engagement with the cam 21!. The connecting rod 212 drives a series of camshafts 21d connected to each other; by means oi. connecting-rods, not shown, the earns 00 215, keyed on the said shafts, operate (through rollers 23%) on the frame 5, in which the paper support 6 is slidable. The paper support is thus raised, and the documents come into contact with the composed discs. A pinion 2W keyed on the shaft 2th drives a pinion 2th keyed on a transverse shaft H9, also mounted on the fixed frame of the machine. Cams 2st keyed on the shaft sit push against the upper ends of the hammers 28R freely oscillating on a-common shaft 252. The hammers strike the documents beiow on a line registering with the composed line of the discs it, with the interposition of a supple screen, not shown. Re- 7 

